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"ref": "1991 July 27, Sandra Loy, “Country skills go on display”, in Herald Express, number 20,138, Devon, page II",
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"ref": "1991 December 24, Sandy Dees-Baker, “Stocking stuffers: Grocery stores provide endless possibilites for the innovative Christmas shopper”, in Anderson Independent-Mail, volume 92, number 84, Anderson, S.C., page 1B, column 2",
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"ref": "1992 February 5, Graeme O’Neill, “Insight into chimp culture”, in The Age, 138th year, number 42,645, Melbourne, Vic., page 9",
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"ref": "1997 July 11, “Today’s Times-Dispatch FREE FOR ALL coupon!”, in Richmond Times-Dispatch, 147th year, number 192, Richmond, Va., page B3",
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"ref": "2002 March 14, Travis Semmes, “State boasts 60 different species of ceanothus”, in Santa Cruz Sentinel, volume 72, Santa Cruz, Calif., page C-2, column 1",
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"ref": "2004 November 5, Cate McQuaid, “Painter looks at life through a lens”, in The Boston Globe, volume 266, number 128, Boston, Mass., page D20",
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"ref": "2017, Naomi Shihab Nye, “Bees Were Better”, in If Bees are Few, University of Minnesota Press; quoted in Ted Kooser, “American Life in Poetry: Meditation on bees”, in Sunday Monitor, Concord, N.H., 2017 November 26, page D7",
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"ref": "1991 November 11, Kelly Gilbert, “Marina, manager convicted on pollution charges”, in The Evening Sun, volume 164, number 17, Baltimore, Md., page B3, column 6",
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"ref": "1993 April 19, John Parris, “‘The Little Brown Shack Out Back’ is now a rare rural sight”, in Asheville Citizen-Times, volume 124, number 109, Asheville, N.C., page 1B, column 2",
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"ref": "1997 March 10, Christina Rogers, “What do you like, or dislike, about your hometown?”, in Daily Journal, Franklin, Ind., page 25, column 4",
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"ref": "1998 February 12, Mike Stauffer, “Town goes out to bid on innovative fertilizer plant: Extra land may be used as soccer complex”, in The Taos News, volume XXXIX, number 30, Taos, N.M., page A3, columns 2–3",
"text": "“The bid will be about $750,000, but we’ve included the addition of a pump site for honey-dippers,” [Fred] Peralta said, the term used to describe companies that collect waste from septic tanks.",
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"ref": "1998 June 11, Charlene Nevada, “Health Commission will try to collar cats: Measure would apply to felines allowed to roam. Akron health officials warn of raccoon rabies outbreak”, in The Beacon Journal, Akron, Oh., page C6, column 2",
"text": "Members of the City Council last looked at cat control in 1992, when Councilman John Conti, D-9, then a freshman, introduced legislation to ban cats from running at large and to require owners to basically be their cat’s personal honey-dipper.",
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"ref": "1998 September 2, Frank Ritter, “Be careful which job you look down upon as menial”, in The Tennessean, volume 94, number 245, Nashville, Tenn., page 11A, columns 5–6",
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"ref": "2000 January 3, Jack Jones, “Purity rules on quiet eastern lakes: Skaneateles, Otisco are purest of lakes”, in The Ithaca Journal, Ithaca, N.Y., page 4A, column 1",
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"ref": "2005 December 4, Ashley Powers, “Buyers hoping to get away from it all can’t escape masses”, in Chicago Tribune, 159th year, number 338, Chicago, Ill., section 16, page 44, column 1",
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},
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"ref": "1998 February 12, Mike Stauffer, “Town goes out to bid on innovative fertilizer plant: Extra land may be used as soccer complex”, in The Taos News, volume XXXIX, number 30, Taos, N.M., page A3, columns 2–3",
"text": "“The bid will be about $750,000, but we’ve included the addition of a pump site for honey-dippers,” [Fred] Peralta said, the term used to describe companies that collect waste from septic tanks.",
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"ref": "1998 June 11, Charlene Nevada, “Health Commission will try to collar cats: Measure would apply to felines allowed to roam. Akron health officials warn of raccoon rabies outbreak”, in The Beacon Journal, Akron, Oh., page C6, column 2",
"text": "Members of the City Council last looked at cat control in 1992, when Councilman John Conti, D-9, then a freshman, introduced legislation to ban cats from running at large and to require owners to basically be their cat’s personal honey-dipper.",
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"ref": "1998 September 2, Frank Ritter, “Be careful which job you look down upon as menial”, in The Tennessean, volume 94, number 245, Nashville, Tenn., page 11A, columns 5–6",
"text": "And the school teacher’s social status was higher than that of the “honey-dipper” — but was that fair? To answer that question, you have to know what a honey-dipper did. He was the man who came around regularly to tip over the wooden, outdoor toilets, scoop up the excrement and haul it away in a truck. […] Honey-dippers had a sweaty, stinky job — and some people would make jokes about them, laugh, put them down. But if you think about it, you realize that if the honey-dippers hadn’t done their job, school would have had to be closed because of the health risk.",
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"ref": "2000 January 3, Jack Jones, “Purity rules on quiet eastern lakes: Skaneateles, Otisco are purest of lakes”, in The Ithaca Journal, Ithaca, N.Y., page 4A, column 1",
"text": "Those cottages, where no adequate new systems can be installed in shale soils, continue to be served by “honey-dippers,” two-person crews that pump effluents from holding tanks and ferry them away by boat for proper disposal.",
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},
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"text": "A sewer system, constructed in the 1980s, replaced the community’s colossal holding tank and the man called the “honey-dipper” who cleaned it.",
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